Article Archive for July 2012
Hmong youth navigates maze; finds career passion
As a daughter of transitory Hmong migrant workers, Belick Pha had reason to believe that her life would be hard in middle-class America.
It was hard when her parents fled from Laos to Thailand across the …
Wilderness Retreats Heal Family Relationships
Caryn Hirshleifer thought she had done her job by arranging wilderness therapy expeditions for her teenaged girls with Soltreks, based north of Duluth in Two Harbors, MN.
When filling out application forms and describing the family …
Who are Your Spiritual Pied Pipers
HOW SPUNKY COUSINS CHANGED MY LIFE
Energetic guitarist and songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman has a reputation for seeking and joyfully expressing the best that life has to offer. Maybe that’s why he confesses his surprise at …
The Land Cries Out
SUMMARY: A pioneering prophet-activist exposes the rarely reported social and ecological roots of a crisis that has claimed 43,000 lives since 2006 in Mexico. His untiring community development in the most dangerous state of Mexico …